Arbiter (n): a person or agency whose judgment or opinion is considered authoritative.

Asset (n): an item of value owned.

Baton (n): a hollow cylinder carried by each member of a relay team and passed to the succeeding runner. To pass the baton is also to pass responsibility or duties to someone else.

Calamity (n): a disastrous event marked by great loss.

Candid (adj): honest

Characterize (v): to describe the character or quality of someone or something; to be typical of.

Cohesion (n): sticking together tightly.

Communal (adj): participated in, shared, or used in common by members of a group or community.

Contemporary (adj): happening, existing, living, or coming into being during the same period of time.

Counsel (n, v): advice given; to advise.

Custodian (n): one that guards and protects, and maintains.

Descendant (n): proceeding from an ancestor (cp. descend).

Elevate (v): to raise. (cp. elevator)

Exhibit (v, n): to show or display outwardly; something, e.g. a painting, exhibited (cp. exhibition). Which picture does not match the definitions?

Handle (v): to examine something using the hands, to solve a problem, to deal with e.g. stress. Which pictures does not match the definitions?

Ideology (n): a body of ideas about human life or culture, e.g. communism, socialism.

Initiation (n): the formal actions done when someone is accepted as a member of a society, club, etc. An initiation ceremony.

Insist (v): to be firm or strong about something demanded.

Lineage (n): a group of individuals tracing descent from a common ancestor. (cp. line).

Manifest (adj, v): obvious or easily understood; to make clear by showing. Which picture does not match the definitions?

Parcel out (v): to divide into parts e.g. a task, a set of duties.

Partisan (n, adj): a firm believer in a cause, person, political party. (cp. part, party).

Patriarch (n): a father or male founder of e.g. a family, tribe, nation.

Pillar (n): a person who is a key member or part of e.g. a society or a community.